Eggplant is a dark purple[1] or brownish-purple[2] color that resembles the color of the outer skin of European eggplants.

[5] Eggplant vegetables themselves have many different varieties and may range from indigo to white, but they can also be red or black and other colors.

However, this origin became mostly forgotten to the common Western collective as the importation of white eggplants ceded to the purple, leading to the word "eggplant" being associated with purple.

In Western cuisines, an exceeding majority of the eggplants eaten are purple.

Thai eggplants are small, round, and colored forest green.